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The Public Service Union is also addressing complaints made by public officers regarding unfair dismissal. In its release, the P.S.U. says that it received several complaints from public officers who have been terminated under the Briceño Administration. The union says that it vows to challenge these terminations following the rules and regulations set out under […]
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The P.S.U.’s Dean Flowers took the opportunity to weigh in on the Good Governance motion introduced in the House on Friday. The unions have always been a very vocal advocate for signing the UNCAC and more stringent anti-corruption policies. Flowers says that legislation is what is needed to fight corruption, not a motion. He says […]
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When the Minister of Agriculture, Food Security and Enterprise, Jose Mai, told the House on Friday that he favored limiting import permits for certain milk and cheeses on the market, it caused quite a stir. Many took to social media to voice their concerns about not having access to their preferred products. Well, it seems […]
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Minister Mai confirmed to News Five that cabinet decided that the Corozal Free Zone will be reopened on February first. Its reopening was one of the manifesto promises of the party. The free zone had been closed for almost a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic and thousands of persons became unemployed in the north. […]
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Will Elections and Boundaries Commission Chairman Estevan Perera resign? Perera is not saying, but Prime Minister John Briceño has called for him to resign. You’ll recall that he was appointed as Chairman of the Commission back in July 2020, four months before the General Elections. And while many political appointees under the previous administration have […]
Written on January 11, 2021 | Posted in
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Tonight, one more prison escapee is in police custody after he broke out from the Belize Central Prison three months ago. Jaroud Lamb was convicted for the June 2013 murder that happened during a robbery at La Choza Bar in Las Flores, Belmopan. Lamb was among the twenty-eight prisoners who broke out of the prison […]
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The decomposed, skeletal remains of an unidentified man washed up on the Macal River bank in Cayo. It was discovered on Saturday morning in the vicinity of Black Rock Road. Police say that the individual had been dead for a while, and they believe that it is not the body of Miguel Caceros, who has […]
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The Supplementary Appropriations Bill will tide the Briceño administration over until the start of the next financial year on April first after it goes before the upper house on Wednesday in a special sitting of the senate. The three-month period is an entire quarter that government would need to be financed. The dire strait it […]
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During its first Sitting of the House of Representatives for 2021 on Friday, the new P.U.P. Administration tabled its Good Governance in Belize Motion. The motion is a model of the P.U.P.’s PLANBelize manifesto presented to the electorate before the November eleventh general elections. In the motion, members of the Briceño Administration pledge to uphold […]
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…from a motion for good governance from elected officials to a constitutional amendment to expand the grounds for removal of Supreme Court judges. For years, there has been a backlog of judgments within the judiciary. It is not a situation unique to Belize but common in many of the Caribbean nations where the judiciary is […]
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While Prime Minister John Briceño and his government table bills to alleviate the financial constraints, he has the hefty superbond payments hovering above his head. Early in the pandemic, then Prime Minister Dean Barrow decided that it would be better to ask bondholders for a deferral on the bond payment. Bondholders agreed to defer the […]
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The government-owned bank, the National Bank of Belize, has a new board of management. The bank, which is headquartered in Belmopan, will now be headed by new chairman, Thomas Tillett. The rest of the new board includes Ashanti Martin, Arsenio Burgos, Oscar Arnold, and Carlo Habet. It is the Prime Minister who appoints the board […]
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Prime Minister John Briceño chaired his first House meeting today. A marathon sitting that just concluded less than a half-hour ago. During these COVID-19 times, the chambers have been retrofitted with plastic cubicles separating the area representatives. The P.U.P. Government commenced with explosives details about a land hustle in the Department of Lands. When the […]
Written on January 8, 2021 | Posted in
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Minister Hyde then spoke of another incident of clear land fraud. According to Hyde, the victim this time was a man named Florencio Talbert, and the alleged perpetrator was the former C.E.O. of the Ministry of Works, Errol Gentle. Hyde told the House that Gentle reportedly acquired lands in the Mountain Pine Ridge area in […]
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Minister Hyde then revealed that the investigation into the Lands Department uncovered the unthinkable; something he says he would have never thought would have been done. In these challenging times of COVID-19, Hyde says that the land compensation budget ballooned with the then Barrow Administration issuing out fifteen million dollars in compensation in September alone. […]
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The repossession of government assets from past ministers continues. The Ministry of Infrastructure Development, formerly the Ministry of Works, is pursuing the recovery of missing inventory. Earlier today, at mile three and a half on the George Price Highway, the police retrieved heavy equipment from former Minister Anthony Boots Martinez’s property. A bitumen batching plant, […]
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Maintaining order in the House of Representatives, amid the constant verbal exchanges across the floor, has always been a challenge. Despite being regarded as the honorable house, Parliament has long been the venue for heated interactions between the government and its opposition. Today was no different, even though it was the first working session since […]
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On the heels of a stunning defeat at the polls on November eleventh last year, it was expected that all U.D.P. appointed chairpersons on various statutory bodies, including the executives of the Belize Tourism Board, would step down as the respectable course of action. Director of Tourism Karen Bevans, who signed a five-year contract to […]
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We got a chance to ask Prime Minister John Briceño about Bevans’ contract today. Bevans has threatened, through Barrow and Williams law firm, to sue Prime Minister John Briceño for defaming her in a previous media interview when talking about her contract. Briceño is sticking to his guns, telling Bevans that she does not want […]
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Beleaguered former Lands Commissioner Wilbert Vallejos and his family in Patchakan, Corozal District were the subject of an intelligence-led operation on January fourth where their residence was searched by personnel from the Mobile Interdiction Team. The Belize Police Department had received actionable information, which led to the officers raiding the property. The operation yielded a […]
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The inaugural sitting of the House of Representatives, led by Prime Minister John Briceño, is being held this Friday. Several bills will be tabled for the first reading, including a proposed piece of legislation that will empower the Central Bank of Belize to provide for emergency programs and facilities. This is in the context of […]
Written on January 7, 2021 | Posted in
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On Wednesday, Minister of Infrastructure Development and Housing Julius Espat detailed the allegations of misuse of resources by former Minister Rene Montero. He also shed light on the ongoing review of high-cost public buildings initiated under the previous administration. Viewers will recall that the Belize Infrastructure Limited, B.I.L., was the special purpose vehicle under the previous administration […]
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An assessment of the recently constructed Foreign Affairs headquarters, the Leigh Richardson Building in Belmopan continues. The new administration is concerned about the value for money. As it stands, the structure, built at the cost of several million dollars, is not designed to meet the foreign ministry’s everyday needs or the office of foreign trade. […]
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A decision on who will succeed Colin Griffith as the next Comptroller of Customs is yet to be determined by the Ministry of Finance. While senior customs officers Ian Haylock and Estelle Leslie have interviewed for the post, an announcement is pending. Until then, the Customs and Excise Department’s outgoing head has been granted a […]
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The U.S. Embassy in Belize has issued a statement on the deadly events at the Capitol on Wednesday. Chargé d’Affaires Keith Gilges, in speaking about American democracy, said, quote, it was tested again yesterday by the assault on the Capitol. The U.S. Congress carried out its duties as enshrined in the Constitution to certify the […]
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